Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet, heatedly complained that the ceiling proposed by the OMB on her department's budget (currently $9.1 billion) was "barely defensible." If OMB had its way, she asserted, the subsidized housing program in the 1980 budget would not only be "socially regressive" but "unprecedentedly low" in comparison with previous Democratic and even Republican programs. It would, she argued, allow the construction of only 291,000 partially and fully subsidized public housing units under existing programs, in contrast with the 333.000 that will be completed under the current budget. OMB's tightfistedness, she warned, "would risk the disaffection...
Until last week, no one would have seriously equated men with lemmings. But now the lemmings would seem to have the better side of the comparison, for they kill themselves en masse for subconscious, biologically-inspired reasons. Twentieth-century man, lacking any such justification, has finally managed to do away with himself in large groups. The Jonestown affair surely marks an isolated incident, but the promise it holds for the future of our social fabric is merely a grim joke...
...concerns, it requires more than that. What we're going to have to do is show, in a straightforward economic analysis, that these power plant leases and coal leases, do not give the tribe a fair deal. And we submit that we can hold up to any comparison anywhere in the world, that we are getting the shaft all the way. And that's what a court is going to hear. That's what a court is going to listen to. Not the religious arguments...
Life went on. The world began to spin again. 1968 closed quietly in comparison, and gave way to the softer tremors...
...graduated state income tax. Both lost. This time the stakes are higher. Homeowners pay too much in property taxes right now. To gently increase that burden will hurt not only homeowners but all of Massachusetts. It will make the "tax revolt" experienced so far seem tame by comparison. Approval of Question One is a necessity...